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Five visas for one work trip gave the former Pinterest engineer a product idea. The harder lesson came later: simplifying travel means earning trust whenever software meets an embassy, a courier and a deadline.

He turned a failing chatbot app into an AI platform for 400 of the world's biggest companies. The pivot started with one number he could not ignore.
Saket Modi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the AI-native cyber risk management platform he started building in his final year of engineering in 2012. Based in Palo Alto, he has grown Safe Security from a bootstrapped IIT Bombay-incubated startup into a 1,300-person company with over $200M in funding — backed by Cisco's legendary John Chambers — protecting the digital infrastructure of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. His audacious goal: build CyberAGI, the definitive autonomous system of intelligence and action for the modern CISO.